This page brings together links to web pages concerning Manchester and its
history. It specifically excludes links to local archives - for these look at
the "Useful Addresses" page in the Information Base or, better still,
install the MLFHS Toolbar. If you have a favourite
site you would like to see added to this page,
contact the society and we
will be happy to consider adding a link.

George Cogswell's excellent site listing all those Trafford
residents who died in the Boer War and the first and Second World Wars.
Contains often substantial personal information about individuals listed.

The Chartist Cooperative Land Society was launched by the
National Charter Association in 1845 with the aim of resettling industrial
workers from the cities on smallholdings. This site offers lists of names,
occupations and addresses of the company subscribers for several Lancashire
towns.

Between 1937 and 1938 Humphrey Spender took over 900
pictures of Bolton at the request of Tom Harrisson, one of the founders of
the Mass-Observation project. Spender's "Worktown" photographs offer a
fascinating insight into the lives of ordinary people living and working in
a British pre-War industrial town.

Bolton Remembers the War is an oral history project,
supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, which has aimed to record and
preserve representative living memories of Bolton people who shared the life
of the town during the Second World War.

This website is about a history of Rusholme & Victoria Park.
You can search the website by entering a keyword in the search box at the
top of each page The archive has been compiled by a Rusholme resident who
has been collecting old postcards, photos, books and other memorabilia which
illustrate the ways in which the area has changed over the past 100 years.

A number of scanned editions of the Guardian for various
dates in 1851, 1856 and 1886. Fully searchable using key-words. Also similar
for Daily News, News of the World, Penny Illustrated and Weekly Dispatch.

Scanned copies of The London, Edinburgh and Belfast
Gazettes. Fully searchable but coverage currently limited to the periods of
the World Wars. Go to the Archive section on the appropriate Gazette page.